UKRAINIAN ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE: HISTORY, PROFITS AND LOSSES, EXPECTATIONS AND PROSPECTS To the history of the Academy’s functioning in 1945–2021

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The article makes an attempt to highlight the main features, achievements and problems of the Academy of Architecture on the territory of Ukraine, starting from 1945 to the present, using a historical-chronological method. We are talking about the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR, reorganized in 1945 from the Ukrainian branch of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (1944), about the Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR, reorganized from the Academy of Architecture in 1955, about the liquidation of this Academy in 1963, about the restoration of the Academy in 1992 in the status of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture.
 On the basis of little-known factual material, the activities of five presidents of the Academy of Architecture are outlined — Vladimir Zabolotny (1945–1955), Anatoly Komar (1955–1959), Pavel Bakuma (1959–1963) Valentin Shtolko (1992– 2020), Oleg Sleptsov (from September 2021), — as well as the features of actual achievements related to the historical context, lost perspectives, unfulfilled desires and urgent needs of the architectural and architectural workshops of Ukraine for almost eighty years.
 Among other things, the achievements of the Academy on the path of researching the architectural heritage of Ukraine are shown, V. Zabolotny’s concern for research in this particular area; highlights the dynamics of the transformation of candidate dissertations in architecture from design-descriptive to scientific, which they are now; shows the range of problems that accompanied the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture after its restoration in 1992, as well as the broad and important scientific and creative heritage of its academicians and corresponding members, in particular in the field of publishing fundamental scientific works; for the first time, a visual representation of the general picture of the formation and formation of the forms of activity of the Academy of Architecture during its existence was proposed; outlined the prospects for further functioning and highlighted aspects of understanding the role of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture in the modern architectural world, not only Ukrainian.